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...prepares to celebrate a quarter-century as Pontiff on Oct. 16, Vatican officials are growing increasingly concerned about his weakening physical condition. On a trip to Slovakia that ended a week ago, the Pope, 83, could finish no more than a few sentences of his opening remarks at the Bratislava airport. Vatican insiders say the apparent effects of Parkinson's disease have become more difficult for the Pope's doctors to control with medication. "They no longer are able to predict how he will be from one day to the next," said one longtime Vatican observer. A Roman Curia official...
...corporate yacht called the Sunny Dream moored outside Cannes' famed Palais des Festivals, staff from Seattle-based Internet media company RealNetworks were last week demonstrating how cell phone users can watch live TV broadcasts over their handsets. The signal - a news broadcast from TV 3, a public station in Bratislava, Slovakia - was picked up by a server in Prague and compressed for viewing on a mobile phone. From there the signal was bounced to the subscribers' global packet radio switched (GPRS) network account in Warsaw, then transferred via automatic roaming to the Orange GPRS network in Cannes, and then...
...CHARGED. IVAN LEXA, 41, former Slovak secret police chief, with armed robbery, fraud, kidnapping and corruption; in Bratislava. Lexa, who fled Slovakia in 2000, was detained at a South African beach resort near the port city of Durban as an illegal alien. He was deported to Bratislava where he was arrested...
...Bratislava's Finance Minister, "Brutal Brigita" is notorious for her strict, budget-cutting measures. In response to her reign, The Topvar brewerey has launched "Brigita" beer at six crowns (14 cents) a half liter. The beer has been ready to pound...
...went to school for five years in Bratislava, two years to the elementary school, and then for three years to the "Real-Schule." During that period, I did not earn a single A--except in singing and in German. Of course I had an alibi. These were all Slovak schools, and I started to learn this language only at 10. Unfortunately, it is hard to invoke this excuse for mathematics, and I certainly did not distinguish myself in this subject, either...My grades were C's and an occasional...